Lumin Android app

[Hear Here]

BluOS is a hw/sw platform … that means that Lumïn should change its hw … it seems a pointless request, and btw… BluOS is not DSD compatible and it isn’t UPnP capable
If you like BluOS then keep a NAD/Node streamer … as you do per your signature

Sorry but I have no idea what you are talking about with those abbreviations! I don't know how or whether BluOS deals with DSD or UPnP, but as far as I'm aware, an app merely acts as a controller that introduces the server's music files to one's streamer as requested by the user and it never touches the signal iteself - surely the way most protective of the signal.

BluOS is now the control app for several brands (see under Devices here - BluOS – Premium Multi-room Music Software) and I suspect others with join the club, particularly now that it's no longer exclusively used by NAD and Bluesound. But I'm no IT expert!

 

[stefano-mbp]

Unfortunately BluOS is not only a software app but it is a hardware platform too and you cannot use anyway BluOS app with hardware different from BluOS hardware platform.
It is like DTS-PlayFi for Audiolab or MConnect/ConversDigital for Mytek, GoldNote and others or Sense /Innuos.
Therefore suggesting to use an app like BluOS is totally a nonsense for Lumïn.
Regarding DSD and UPnP … Google is your friend, search and study a little bit, being informed is the first thing before suggesting impossible solutions

 

[Hear Here]

Unfortunately BluOS is not only a software app but it is a hardware platform too and you cannot use anyway BluOS app with hardware different from BluOS hardware platform.
It is like DTS-PlayFi for Audiolab or MConnect/ConversDigital for Mytek, GoldNote and others or Sense /Innuos.
Therefore suggesting to use an app like BluOS is totally a nonsense for Lumïn.
Regarding DSD and UPnP … Google is your friend, search and study a little bit, being informed is the first thing before suggesting impossible solutions

I'm not suggesting that switching from an existing app to BluOS would be easy for Lumin, but several other brands have recognised the benefit of switching from a generic app or their existing ones to BluOS. It could be for all I know, that BluOS can adapt their app for the different hardware that other brands have developed.

Other brands using (or who have announced they will shortly be using) include Monitor Audio, Dali, Peachtree, Cyrus, Roksan and PSB, in addition to NAD and Bluesound. Whether Lumin could adapt by something as simple as a firmware upgrade or not, I have no idea, but these other brands have adapted and adopted BluOS to control their kit, presumably in recognition of its obvious benefits from the user's point of view.

 

[stefano-mbp]

It should be like asking Ferrari to use Porsche engine, a total nonsense

 

[Michaels HiFi]

It should be like asking Ferrari to use Porsche engine, a total nonsense

From what I can see, I don't see any high end companies using Bluesound. Lumin - at least in my mind - is a much higher end product than any of the current ones I see using Bluesound.

 

[Hear Here]

It should be like asking Ferrari to use Porsche engine, a total nonsense

Let’s take your tongue-in-cheek analogy a step further

Ferrari (Lumin) has an unsatisfactory engine - users find it awkward and it only works on certain roads (platforms).

Porsche (BluOS) has an engine with more power, that users like and it goes anywhere. What’s more Porsche has made its great engine available to other car brands. Shouldn’t Ferrari consider eating humble pie and talk with Porsche about an engine deal? Keep smiling

 

[wklie]

Preliminary support for differentiation of Qobuz / Tidal work/disc (i.e. multiple symphonies or discs under a single album) is available as Lumin Android app beta. Let me know if any Android user likes to try it.